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our Kamicks on our southward trip,
and on our return to the ship we ar-
ranged with Alakutsiak to collect
the grass from the hillside.
Breakfast- scoured oatmeal+ good beans.
coffee, bread and butter,
Dinner- roast beef stew, hard tack
bread, butter, tea.
27 November. Saturday-
Clear and fine till mid afternoon
then rather thick with lowlying haze.
Temp. min +17o; 9a.+17o; noon+13o; 4h. +5o
9 h.m. Haze Thick in bay, covering our
gigging with rime . Overhead stars
visible.
Out to [illegible] outer point next beyond valley,
with Ekblaw, a six mile walk, directly
after noon. Went ashore on point under
high overhanging bluff. Saw a fox's
den and found the bird-grass and